[teaching with drupal] poll in block?

[Dan Butcher]

Awesome--I look forward to seeing it!

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com> wrote:
> Hello, Dan,
>
> It's scheduled for release at the end of October -- I'm currently reviewing
> screenshots/process as there were some code changes and user interface
> changes that landed in early September.
>
> So, almost there...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> Dan Butcher wrote:
>>
>> Bill--I thought that Views might help with this.
>>
>> On another, related topic: when is your Drupal book coming out, Bill?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Bill Fitzgerald <bill at funnymonkey.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello, all,
>>>
>>> The Views module would also give you more granular control over this --
>>> for
>>> example, you could make a poll sticky, and use views to display only
>>> "sticky" polls --
>>>
>>> If you were going to be regularly filtering through polls, you could also
>>> look at the Nodequeue module to specify polls for display.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> Bleck, Bradley wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cool. I'm sure I stumbled across it in the same way.
>>>>
>>>> Bradley Bleck
>>>> English Department
>>>> Spokane Falls CC
>>>> http://bleckblog.org
>>>> http://biketoworkspokane.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net
>>>> [mailto:teaching-bounces at drupaled.net]
>>>> On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:55 AM
>>>> To: teaching with drupal
>>>> Subject: Re: [teaching with drupal] poll in block?
>>>>
>>>> OK--I should have checked the Block config page first :) One of the
>>>> built-in blocks is "most recent poll"--placed it in the sidebar, and
>>>> there's my poll. Thanks for the response, Brad.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Bleck, Bradley <BradB at spokanefalls.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using a poll on one site, and how I did it, I don't recall,
>>>>> but
>>>>> I have it on the left side of my page. I just gave things a quick look
>>>>> and I
>>>>> can't tell how I made it happen. It can be done, but I don't remember
>>>>> how.
>>>>> It may be that the poll automatically appears in a block, but if you
>>>>> leave
>>>>> "promote to front page" or whatever that publishing choice is, you'll
>>>>> also
>>>>> have it front and center.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bradley Bleck
>>>>> English Department
>>>>> Spokane Falls CC
>>>>> http://bleckblog.org
>>>>> http://biketoworkspokane.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: teaching-bounces at drupaled.net
>>>>> [mailto:teaching-bounces at drupaled.net] On Behalf Of Dan Butcher
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:17 PM
>>>>> To: teaching with drupal
>>>>> Subject: [teaching with drupal] poll in block?
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to poll my students about how they are using an online tool,
>>>>> and I want to put it in a block in the sidebar since I have some
>>>>> announcements that need to stay front and center (and top) on the home
>>>>> page. Is there a way to do that? I know I can display poll results in
>>>>> a block, but I want the poll itself to appear in the block.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
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